RCA in Milwaukee for 20 bucks
 

http://milwaukee.craigslist.org/for/1110723631.html
Not mine ect.......

EARLY one--is it about 1949 vintage?

I put in a call to him. Waiting to hear back.

tvhistory.tv says 1948.

Bob, I hope you get it. I'm sure you'll do that cabinet justice.

John

Oooooooh...Dat's an OLD one...Hope one of "The Clan" here gets it...Hate to see sumpin like that go to a "Civilian" who promptly turns it into a feckin' wine rack or sumpin' equally as inane...

I have an Uncle in Milwaukee I could store one at till I could get down there. Unfortunately he does not drive:-(

The seller called back tonight. I will be picking it up on Monday.

Thanks Mark for posting this one. Cant go wrong for 20 bucks.

Bob

Thanks for not letting this item go to the dump! It can be an easy restore...

You're welcome Bob, I was hoping you would grab it. I have way too much going on right now, it should turn out to be a beauty.

Awrite !! ANOTHER old veteran saved...Way to go, guys !!

I picked i up yesterday. Took two strong men and an appliance dolly to hoist it out of the basement. It weighs a ton!

Finish is quite nice except for a couple of dings in the corners which have been mashed in. Best fix will be to stain and varnish the dings and be done with it.

Crt is only fair. It is the original. With a Beltron cleaning I got 9 seconds life and about 85 micro amps.

CRT measures 420 on a scale of 1000 on the B&K 465.

This is a chanel 1 set.

It will be years before I get to restoring this one, but now it is safe from the dumpster at least.

Bob

If you do get it up and running, you might be able to feed it a channel 1 signal if you modify an old VCR's TV modulator like I did in this article: http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/sho...d.php?t=220321 As the picture carrier is on 45.25MHz, one third of that is about 15.0833MHz, and if you can find a crystal of that frequency, and a modulator with the right kind of modulator chip...